Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has snapped up three books from Morag Hood in a "hotly contested" auction. Picture-book ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Media billionaire John Malone, who has guided companies across telecom, cable, sports and digital for decades, will publish ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

Multiple states have passed laws forbidding people under the age of 18 from accessing "harmful" books. An Iowa law extends to ...

Ian Chapman, CEO of Simon & Schuster UK and International, is set to step down from his role in May this year, after 25 years ...

The mogul, whose moniker “Cable Cowboy” nods to his roots running Tele-Communications Inc., has signed a deal with Simon & ...

Bill Belichick announced the forthcoming publication of his new book The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football, out ...

Will blurbs on book covers become a thing of the past? US publishing house Simon & Schuster is going to give it a try. Executive editor Sean Manning has laid out plans for the publisher to stop ...